Skiff



. s'rnwnivr B. KING, or irrerrnanns, NEw Jnnsn r.

SKIFF.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 13, 1919. Serial No. 344,559.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, STE\VART B. KING, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of .Highlands, county of Monmouth, and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Skiffs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved hull of a boat, and is particularly designed to be used in small boats, such as skiffs.

In some forms of boats, known as Seabright skiffs, used off the coast of New Jersey, the small soaworthy boats are handicapped as to speed, due to a settling by the stern as the speed increases. To overcome this, and to'provide a seaworthy boat capable of high speed, I have designed the hull which is the subject-matter of this 7 invention.

I have devised a hull in which there are no radical changes to make the boat unfit as a surf boat, but have remodeledthe portion astern of amidships to permit an increase of speed without any excessive settling by the stern, so that a much greater speed is possible with the same sized hull than in the shifts as formerly used.

The invention is illustrated in the accon1 panying drawing, in which Figure 1 1s a side vlew of a skiif made according to my in vention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged side view of the stern, and

stern. The general Fig. 3 is an elevation of the form of the hull isof the a keel 11, ,which is usually curved at 12 where itmerges into the stem 13. The bilge 1% forward of amidships is made so that it bulges outwardly and upwardly in a curve, as is usual in boats of this kind, but the bilge merges toward the rear, as at 15, toa

hull 10 being provided with;

flattened shape, and this continues,

This is clearly illustrated in Fig. 3 at 17, this showing the inwardly curved part which extends back to the stern 18, the keel l1 terminating short of the stern of the boat so 3 Patented Sept. 14, 11920.,

that that part of the'bottom of the boat that overhangs, as at 16, is downwardly andrearwardly inclined,'as will be seen from Figs. 1 and 3, so that the surface 17 not only is curved slightly inward transversely, but it j extends downwardtoward the rear, the such as the kind crown of this downward extension. being from one-quarter to one-half inch.

. Of course these curvatures and the amount of curvature can be increased'or diminished,

according to circumstances, but I have found that with a boat built this way the speed can be very much greater than with the ordinary size of skiff, without the undue settling at the stern, and the ,form of the hull that permits this does not at all aifect the seaworthiness of'the boat.

Iclaim: '1. A skiff having a hull witha keel ter1ninating short of the stern, the overhanging part of the stern having a bottom inclined downwardly toward the rear.

7 2. r'i-skiif having a hull with a keel terminating short of the stern, the overhanging part of the'stern having a bottom inclined downwardly toward the rear, said downwardly inclined part being slightly concave transversely.

3. A; skiff having a hull with a keel terminating short of stern, and having the bilge forward' of amidships bulging upwardlyf and outwardly and gradually fiattening toward the stern until it forms a transversely concave and rearwardly and downwardly. inclined part where it overhangs the end of'the keel. V

In testimonythatl claim the foregoin I have hereto setniy hand, this llth'day of December, 1919. p

STEWART B. me. 

